Author Archives: Jasmin Hofstetter

Jasmin Hofstetter

About Jasmin Hofstetter

Dr. Jasmin Hofstetter is studying the kinetics of metallic impurities and dislocations in silicon, and their interaction during solar cell processing. She received a degree in physics from Freie Universität Berlin in Germany in 2006 and she completed a PhD in Photovoltaic Solar Energy at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid in Spain. She joined the PV group in July 2011 as a Humboldt fellow.

Co-Optimizing Crystalline Silicon Solar Cell Throughput and Efficiency Using Continuously Ramping Phosphorus Diffusion Profiles

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Co-optimizing the Phosphorous Diffusion Time-Temperature Profile for Gettering and Throughput

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Precipitated Iron: A Limit on Gettering Efficacy in Multicrystalline Silicon

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Dislocation Density Reduction During Impurity Gettering in Multicrystalline Silicon

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Engineering metal precipitate size distributions to enhance gettering in multicrystalline silicon

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Simulated Co-Optimization of Crystalline Silicon Solar Cell Throughput and Efficiency Using Continuously Ramping Phosphorus Diffusion Profiles

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Towards the tailoring of P diffusion gettering to as-grown silicon material properties.

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Deployment of impurity-to-efficiency (I2E) simulation tool.

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Impurity-to-efficiency simulator: Predictive simulation of silicon solar cell performance based on iron content and distribution.

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Iron distribution in silicon after solar cell processing: Synchrotron analysis and predictive modeling.

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Enhanced iron gettering by short, optimized low-temperature annealing after phosphorus emitter diffusion for industrial silicon solar cell processing.

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Impurity-to-efficiency simulator: Predictive simulation of solar cell efficiencies based on measured metal distribution and cell processing conditions.

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Synchrotron-based microanalysis of iron distribution after thermal processing and predictive modeling of resulting solar cell efficiency.

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Simulating the evolution of the impurity content and distribution in a mc-Si wafer during solar cell processing.

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